Huntsville gazette., 1887-10-08
SOUTHERN GL-EANINGS.


md had no hope of returning. He was
'ixty-two years old, and became Arch
bishop in 1881.
While returning from Sunday school
concert at Calvary church, Edgefeld
County, S. c., a few nights ago. VIII Bu.
ford was shot and killed by Paul Griffin.
Griffin declares that the killing was acci.
dental; that he shot at Eldred Oliphant,
With whom he had quarreled about escort.
ing q girl from the church, and that the
pistol ball missed Oliphant and struck
5uford.
I Edmund Montgomery died on Nick
4 Jordan's place, near the county line Of
Schley, Ga. few days ago. aged one
hundred and two years. He was an
/ African chief of the Askari tribe, and was
! taken to Virginia from Africa in 1907,
! when he was a stalwart young man. BE
had large family in Virginia, and when
/ be died he left his third wife and twenty.
7 five children in Georgia. His grandchil-
! dren and great-grandchildren are un.
! known and unnumbered. He had re.
markable good eyesight and health, and
never took dose of medicine in his life.
He had teeth like ivory and every one was
in his head at the time of death.
julie j. .Sigman, a saloon-keeper, and E.
J. Wilkerson, both powerful men, assaulted
A. w. Reynolds, editor of the Holly
| Springs (Miss.) Daily Sun, a few days ago,
and beat him numerically over the head
and body with club and loaded whip.
| Preston FAINT, son of the mayor, stood
in the door of the office and attempted to
prevent bystanders from stopping the
row.
There is an organization Of the labor
vote in Virginia sufficiently strong to
count as one Of the uncertainties of ths
campaign.
The salary Of judge in the mountain
districts of Kentucky is $500 year, Of
county attorney $500, of clerk 500, and
sheriff $500.
Mrs Elizabeth Ruprecht died in Owens.
boro, KY, recently, at the age of ninety
one years. She was born in PegintZ, Ba
varia, in 1896, and has been resident o.
Ovensboro for thirty years.
Mr.. Israel Johnson, living on the cas-.
side of the Oconee, near Dublin, Ga, on
one day recently extricated and killed
thrty-four large m casins from hole
in his mill dam.
The Democratic convention of the Sixth
district of Louisiana nominated Colonel S.
| II. Robertson, of Baton Rouge, for Con
gress to succeed his father, the late
Colonel E. Robertson.
c. F. Mavis has fled suit in the
District Court at Palestine, Tenn,
against the Missouri Pacific Railway
Company for $500 damages claimed fol
injuries TO his person inflicted by the cars
at a crossing on September 10.
Mrs. L. A. Baarcke, in lighting gasoline
stove at her residence in Mobile, Ala.
caused flare up Of flames, the stove hav'
ing been allowed to leak over night. The
lady's clothes caught fire, and she wa:
terribly burned from the neck 20 the heels
It is doubtful if she RECEIVERS.
At the Hail gold mine in Georgia, San
Ewing recently had $95 stolen from hin
in a singular manner. He was in the
habit Of depositing his money in a hollow
stump in the woods for safe keeping. He
went to the stump to make another de
posit. when he discovered that some one
had made q draft on his bank and ex
hnusted his surplus.
la the Georgia Senate, recently substi
tnte for famous Glenn bill against mixing
negroes and whites in the public schools
was passed The House has in turn re-
jacted the substitute.
The construction Of the Kansas City
Memphis s. Birmingham railroad bridge
across the Tombigbee River at Aberdeen
Miss, is progressing favorably, though
several drawbacks have been encountered
and the contractors are employing every
means for facilitating the works, labor
ing day and night when vantage grounC
can be obtained by extra time.
The J. B. Wathen & Bro. Company
dst;lIers at Louisville, KY, has made al
assignment. The liabilities are placed a
! 100000. The assets, including the plant
which is one of the most costly of the kim
| in the State, are $685. The general de
preston in trade and a destructive fir
/ which necessitated the construction 0
| new warehouses by the firm in 1856 ar
given as the causes Of the failure.
A white fisherman named John Davi
was arrested at Chattanooga, Tenn, feF
1 davs ago, for the murder of his wife, an
/ was committed TO jail without ball. Mrs
/ Davis died recently very suddenly. Davi
stated at the time that she had eaten
| hearty supper and was dead in an hou
! and thirty minutes. Supicious circun
stances aroused the officials, and the re
mains were disinterred, and the fact wa
revealed that the skull had been frat
tured by a blow.
fatal alCercation is reported from f1a
County, Ga, in which the exciting caus
was the ownership Of two puppies. Tn
dispute was between w. F. Wilder an
/ Charles Maddox, which terminated b
Maddox chasing Wilder with an axt
| Maddox's wife swore out warrants agains
Wilder and his sister. Wilder resisted al
rest, chopping right and left with his axe
striking j. H Durham with his axe cuttin
nim through the shoulder six inches deeI
Durham then shot Maddox in the hip, th
bullet lodging near the kidneys, infiictin
4 fatal wound.
! The strike in the woolen mills at Loni
vile, KY, which was inaugurate
two months ago, has proven failure. In
weavers demanded an increase OF wage
and were supported in this action by tn
knights of Labor. The mill owners took
firm stand, refusing to take back any
the strikers who would not sign an agree
nent to give up all allegiance to I'll
Knights and return at the old wages. The
were compelled to close. Recently, how
ever, their employees began to seek the
old places at their owners terms, an
nearly all Of the weavers have agreed
the conditions. Two mills are at wcsl
and another expected to be able to resuln